The Press: Sunshine in Vancouver

To tart-tongued Columnist Jack Scott, 43, of the Vancouver (B.C.) Sun,
no target was ever more tempting than the Sun itself. He railed against
the paper's promotion contests ("cynical seduction of a gullible
public"), declared western Canada's biggest (circ. 211,012) and fattest
daily was slow of foot and dull of eye. Critic Scott's proposal to
brighten the Sun: "More deep reporting and vivid writing, the sort of
thing that will grab the reader by the lapels and command his
attention." Last September Scott got a chance to put up or shut up; Sun...